“If you’re 260 pounds or 300 pounds and want to ride a bike, you should be allowed to. You’re making a choice to live healthier and to lose weight,” said Jhoskaira Ferman, a 20-year-old student from Pelham Bay, Bronx.

Oh, boo hoo. First of all, nobody's going to be hanging around the bike share kiosks with a scale, so I wouldn't really worry about it until you keel over and try to sue. Second of all, guess what? You can't ride all the rides at Great Adventure either:What is considered exceptional size where rides are concerned?

Safety is our number one priority. Guests with certain body proportions, height and/or weight may not be able to participate on certain rides if the safety restraints will not operate as designed. Specific ride information is available at the ride and at Guest Relations.

Anyway, somehow I doubt there are legions of overweight people in New York City who are feeling disenfranchised by the bike share weight limit--though if they are then perhaps this weight limit will inspire them to meet their weight loss goals.

I do admit though that I enjoy it when the Post tries to play the pathos card:

Yeah, I'm sure they're really worried about him. In any case, if I see that guy riding around on a Citi Bike I promise not to rat him out.

Simply heaving the bulky, 45-pound cruisers in and out of their kiosk slots is heavy lifting. And riding them isn’t that easy, either — they’re solid to the point of being clunky to maneuver at times.After their use, bikes must be rolled into a kiosk slot at just the right angle — until it clicks locked.

Until it clicks locked?!? Those monsters!

Still, I admit the Post makes a good point here, because you know what's not heavy and doesn't require approaching a parking space at just the right angle? A fucking car. Have you seen the average idiot in New York try to park an SUV? It's like watching an old person try to perform coitus before the Viagra kicks in.

I do think the Post should be careful here though, because they're contradicting themselves in a manner that's pitifully obvious even for them. Do they want the bike share system open to the morbidly obese who may not survive the heaving and grunting involved in moving the bikes in and out of the kiosks? Or do they want light, agile roadsters that will collapse under their weight in short order?

But when it comes to critiquing the bikes themselves (which, it should be said, is like criticizing the New York City subway for not having a dining car), nobody beats the Daily News. Indeed, I was just reading Streetsblog, where I came across this article:

Holy shit! The Daily News has its own Bike Snob?!? Indeed, they do, and here she is making a great big "doucheclamation point:"

As a proud bike snob, who is rarely without her her SE Draft steel-frame fixie, I leaped at the chance to test the bright blue CitiBike.

Wait, she knows about bikes because she rides an SE Draft? This is like saying, "As a proud gourmand, who is rarely without a six-piece Chicken McNuggets...," or, "As a proud bibliophile, who is rarely without her copy of 'Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started'..."

Really, saying you know bikes because you ride a cheap fixie is almost as ridiculous as saying you're a journalist because you write for the Daily News.

But don't tell BSDN that, or she'll hit you with the sideways vajayjay:

My handbag could barley fit into the metal basket. The bungee rope, connected to the bike, took manly might to safely secure the purse.

Seriously? The basket's too small and the bungee cord is too hard to stretch? Is this really a complaint? It's an amenity on a public facility. Does she also complain about the toilet seats in public restrooms?

Next, she simply lapses into porn:

It was time to get dirty. Squatting my knees, I needed all of my power to tug the bike out of its holder.

Clearly BSDN is recycling the erotica she writes in her spare time by doing a search-and-replace with the words "bike" and "dong."

Oh, also, these bikes aren't hardcore enough for the mean New York streets:

But exerting all my energy got me to about 7 mph. Joggers go faster than that. Yawn. CitiBikes are too slow to survive a New York minute.

Please. I'd rather ride a bike share bike than BSDN's crappy SE Draft any day. If anything's not cut out to survive a New York minute it's BSDN, who had to hire a coach to teach her to ride in traffic in the first place:

Me and my breed of urban bikers obey the rules and also follow a code of ethics."Don't ride in platform shoes. Or flip-flops. Don't ride and text," said my bike coach John Campo, 62, who trains me on how not to die while peddling on a New York street.Campo teaches folks how to "street ride," a culture mixed with bike messenger-styled aggressiveness (yes, we scream at drivers and pedestrians not giving us the right of way) and staying safe.

She should also hire a writing coach to teach her the difference between "peddle" and "pedal."

Also, back then BSDN rode (or, in her parlance, "peddled") a Surly Steamroller:

I hate being in the overpriced sticky subways and opt to ride my sweet Surly Steamroller instead of paying for a cab. I bike to crime scenes while on the job for the Daily News, and have no problem peddling to dinner parties sporting shorts under a fancy dress.

You'd think someone who's been the victim of a bike theft would be more appreciative of a bike share system she's under absolutely no obligation to use. As it is, bike theft keeps forcing her to downgrade, and at this rate it won't be long before she's riding a Walmart bike that will have her wishing she was on a bike share bike.

In any event, I guess John Campo didn't cover the part about using a lock.

So would the tabloids get behind bike share if they offered, light, nimble, flickable urban douchecycles like The Budnitz? No, then they'd deride it as a plaything for the 1%--though I just this morning received an email informing me I've ordered a "Model No. 5 Titanium" (and that my name is "Oh"):

I can assure you that I have absolutely not ordered a Budnitz, so I'm going on the theory that Old Man Budnitz is trying to shake me down for $500.

Wait, she knows about bikes because she rides an SE Draft? This is like saying, "As a proud gourmand, who is rarely without a six-piece Chicken McNuggets...

Without a doubt, the article/writer just inserts her into a culture as if she was there all along. Which is late-stage trendiness and overall douchiness reserved for an organization trying to make money publishing content.

This too shall pass and like clown-bike riders, bike-nerd purgatory is its own walled garden of weirdos.

The chicken mcnuggets claim was lame though. Second grade lame and typical for bike gear geeks. Good job.

I'm sure there is a factor of safety (FOS) in that 260# limit. If you weight 260# and have 20# of crap, that's 280#. There's probably a FOS of at least 1.5, so you're good for at least 400# + 20# of crap, for a grand total of 420#.

I like the idea of the citibikes but at 9.95 for a 24 hour pass, it seems as though they are much more for tourist than locals. also there are no stations above 59th street, so if you live uptown in manhattan you can't really use the bike to commute.

Black jerseys suck ass in the California sun, idiot designer oblivious to basic human comfort. That fact, with DNBS's lack of writing skill and rip-off name scam is living proof that dumb asses are taking over

Being ancient and all retrogrouchy-like, I remember my big Schwinn cruiser being about 40 odd pounds. Rich kids got 33 pounders, the one percenters got 11.8 Voyagers. BSDNseems either narcissistic or fey, or perhaps just weak in the physique if she can't handle a bike that 12 year olds used to be consigned to. Next will be a photo of her with the back of her hand on her forehead, swooning from exertion. PffffTTT. Perhaps its just too 'barley' laden to pedal/pettle/petal about.

John Campo is a f*cking awesome, wonderful dude, and a major asset to the NYC cycling and bike racing community. It's just a crying shame that this DN person had to drag him into her own personal cycling shitshow -- the Kissena Velodrome would still be a glass-strewn crater with giant cracks (instead of small, barely noticeable cracks) and potholes if it wasn't for his tireless work and advocacy. Just had to get that out here.

So, that douchebag editor at our august tabloid ordered the Bike Snob Daily News reporter to go out and "get me some dirt on the bike share program"! And His Girl Freaky Fixie Friday says, "I'm on it boss", as she flashes her sideways vajayjay sign,

As awful as that may be, it is a lot better than the tragi-comedy of watching the average idiot from New Jersey attempt to parallel park a minivan in NYC. I'd go with the average idiot from NYC as depressing as that is to admit.

I flash the happy Vajayjay/Peace sign all of the time. I try to train drivers to be nice by using positive reinforcement, so every time one of them does something nice, I give em a big grin, flash the vajayjay sign and say a big thank you.Works wonders, that.

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OK, all very well but what I want to know is this - Who from CitiBikes is going to tell Eric Fischer that he can't borrow a bike . . . it will take a brave man, or a fool.http://www.nfl.com/draft/2013/profiles/eric-fisher?id=2539213

I thought that article was ridiculous. I managed to not notice the "peddling" but I otherwise thought she was full of shit. While riding the 5 Boro Tour, I found a young lady riding a Citishare bike on the BQE. I asked if she worked for the program and was promoting the program (it would have been an obscenely expensive ride otherwise) and she did. She told me it was a surprisingly comfortable ride even after close to 30 miles.

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